All About Jazz — Jimmy Wyble, 87, a guitarist of great range who played with country-western swing bandleader Bob Wills as well as with the Benny Goodman and Red Norvo jazz combos, died of heart failure Jan. 16 while under hospice care at his home in Altadena, accord... more info

All About Jazz — By Larry Taylor Big bands and an array of jazz stars will be featured at the 10th Annual Newport Beach Jazz Party, held Feb. 11 through 14, at the Marriott Hotel in Newport Beach, California. Kicking off the Valentine's/Presidents Day weekend e... more info

All About Jazz — Few pianists have been there and done that as often as Dick Hyman. In addition to playing with Charlie Parker, Lester Young, Tony Scott and Red Norvo, Dick studied with Teddy Wilson and recorded with Benny Goodman, Zoot Sims and virtually every other... more info

Guardian Music — Pizza Express, LondonThe Anglophile American saxophonist Scott Hamilton emerged in the 1970s as a young man playing an old jazz style: the song-based swing music of the prewar, pre-bebop era. On the face of it, the former Benny Goodman and Rosemary C... more info

All About Jazz — Jazz Legend Bucky Pizzarelli Performs Live at Division Street Grill January 2nd 2010 at 7:30 and 9:30pm Peekskill NY -- Jazz Legend Bucky Pizzarelli will keep the New Year's weekend celebration alive with his stellar jazz guitar performances at Th... more info

All About Jazz — From July 9th to 11th in the Southern California Wine Country City of Temecula, thousands will converge to celebrate the "first lady of song, " Ella Fitzgerald, the most popular female jazz singer in the United States for more than half a century. In... more info

All About Jazz — Pete Neighbour is proud to announce that his new album, It's Alright With Me is now available. It can be purchased directly from Pete, via his website, peteneighbour.com, at specialist music stores and track downloads, as well as the album itself, ar... more info

All About Jazz — Four Manhattan School of Music alumni are being honored at a special alumni homecoming reception on October 16, 2009. Joe Wilder, Capt. Kenneth Force, Elliot Goldenthal, and Laquita Mitchell will be recognized for their significant career accomplishm... more info

All About Jazz — When Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong tried to iron out how their 1953 joint tour would play out, egos clashed and Goodman dropped out. Goodman's decision proved to be a stroke of luck for trumpeter Al Stewart. As the Goodman band without Goodman fe... more info

All About Jazz — Trumpeter Al Stewart spent much of 1948 and 1949 touring with Benny Goodman's bebop band. Al was classically trained, and Benny appreciated his hard work and rock solid sound in the trumpet section. But by late 1949, Goodman was fed up with bop. So h... more info